I'm trying to make Minecraft Dungeons in vanilla Minecraft but I just realised something: "Since grass spreads, how am I going to keep the dirt as dirt?". Is there something I can do to keep the dirt I place AS dirt? This is in java 1.16.5, and no, I can't use coarse dirt.
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This is essentially how Minecraft operates: when items spawn inside your crushing block, the game tries to move them somewhere valid. Any non-solid block, like slabs or stairs, that won't push items, also won't crush chickens. Double thick walls may help, but not guaranteed. The game will just try to push items harder.
The solution is to put some kind of non-full-height block above the hoppers. This way, chickens will still have their heads suffocated by a block above, but their legs and dropped items will be in a valid space above a lower block's surface. Hoppers suck items in from the whole block space above them, so that would not be a problem.
Testing indicates that the obvious choice of short block - the Slab - works perfectly.
Also check the list of block heights here: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Solid_block#Heights
Coarse dirt looks almost identical to dirt, but grass will not grow on it:
(Coarse dirt on the left, normal dirt on the right)
If in survival, you can find it in mega taiga, mesa and savanna biomes. It can also be crafted using normal dirt and gravel:
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The
randomTickSpeedgamerule denotes how often chunks receive random ticks. A chunk receiving a random tick triggers a variety of events, which include, but are not limited to:There's no way to my knowledge how to pick only which of these updates you'd like to perform during a random tick - you can only manipulate the speed at which they hapen.
To disable random updates altogether (and therefore prevent grass from spreading), simply use:
The default value for this gamerule is
3for the Java Edition.An alternative approach would be paying attention to the grass block's spreading rules and designing your map so that the dirt blocks wouldn't come in proximity (3x3x5 blocks area) of other grass blocks.